i love farm/ranch stores....

Sleepy.

in bed watching Wrangler National Finals Rodeo on GAC.....i've been keeping up with it most every night it's been on...until i fall asleep for the night...

Been a long day it seems like....A few cows jumped the fence and tore it down over by the ponds and i spent most the day trying to find them and drive them back to the other side of the fence....They just look at me like:"What?! We haven't done anything wrong!Go away Julia!".....haha...yeah they are spoiled moos...every single one of them has an attitude...i swear.....

I managed to find a few more gifts for family today..I found cowprint fleece blankets on sale so i bought a few of those...i'm going back and buy some for myself tomorrow!...lol.....and more cowboy christmas gift bags,fuzzy socks(for gifts)a red sharpie marker,cards,coffee cups,and gloves all at the farm/ranch store....I think those make good gift ideas for cowboys/farmers.....

anything from any farm/ranch store would be a good gift to me...i freaking LOVE those stores...i shop all the time in them...I come from a family of nothing but cowboys/farmers so that's the BEST place to shop for them or myself..they have everything related to this life....from equipment to feed to clothing to boots to cute cowboy decor....yeah i'm in love with those stores...can't ya tell?

i'm thinking about assembling gift baskets...you know making a basket full of various things and wrapping it in clear gift wrap...with adornments....lots of things altogether...pretty!....I have so many friends/family that buying gifts can be a bit of a headache....so why not throw in various items?...make it fun,cute, and random...and.....cowboy themed of course.

It takes a while to get to a good town to do some shopping....BUT i don't mind at all really..People sometimes ask:"How do you stand living so far out there in the middle of nowhere?!It would drive me insane!"...and i tell them:"I LOVE it....it's all i have ever known....I could NEVER live in the city/town...i gotta have my quiet desolate,wide open spaces....or i would suffocate and wither away into nothing.".....

some people have to constantly see other people and interact or stay on the go 24/7....not me!!!....I like my quiet time and isolation...sometimes i just don't have much to say to people and i just like being alone..most the people in my family are that way--genetic....i guess i'm not much of a talker....(you couldn't tell that from how much i like to type could ya?!!".....LOL....some people just talk way too much for me...

More shopping&planning to do for tomorrow....

nite-nite....zzz....

do acts of kindness for the world....

It snowed!...Haha...Well....it was just a "dusting" of snow at 2am this morning...I never saw it...i was asleep....Man,I wish it would snow on Christmas!!!...It feels more like it should with snow...

I heard this song on a holiday music satellite channel..I really like it!..great lyrics..Perfect title for that little bit of snow i never saw this morning...lol..i'm going to itunes this one.

It was so freaking cold this morning...11 degrees!...great though-switching things up a bit weather-wise..So i had to go break ponds and water tanks this morning in pastures for livestock and feed them in the truck..in those huge "i can't move or walk cover-alls"...LOL!...kept me warm though...no complaints.

My missing package in the mail arrived and is now wrapped under the tree...i sent a thank you email to the person who got the order right and to me in the mail...thank god i got it!....It was a gift for my Dad...hope he likes it and i get to see him soon...

Along with that gift i also got a few others wrapped today...I've decided that i wanna make my own ribbon bows this year out of wire ribbons because my aunts all do that..NO boring bows out of a package for this girl!...so i attempted it after Auntie J showed me how saturday..I bought a really pretty red/sparkly wire ribbon roll to match my red/white/wreath/berry wrapping paper...

it's fun to change things up like that even the simplest things like making your own bows on gifts...makes it more special and interesting i think...do something different.

here's a video i found to learn how to make them today...BUT my Aunt is the best bow maker and teacher...lol...

Oh!....i won $25 in the drawing this weekend at the parade in town....Haha!!!....me & my friends were all there acting like morons and being stupid..laughing and talking all over town all night.. and the hot chocolate/marshmellows!..it was soooo good!....good day.....AND we sold a lot of candy for the Town & Country Club to donate for the various Christmas charities in town and the toy/food drive for the churches...

Feels great to help contribute good for the community/world and do something nice for all the people and animals suffering this year and all the time---i care for them all and feel sadness in my heart for each and every one suffering human or animal..Bless them all....they're always in my prayers and thoughts...

the world seems crazy and evil at times but things can get better...every good and kind thing you do in the world---big or small, makes the world a better place...we should do that all the time not just at Christmas....instead of being depressed or bored or arguing over money or material crap----Think of the people suffering and the animals and go do something good for them and help make a good difference...forget yourself!---your worries/depression get up off your butt, stop whining/feeling sorry for yourself and get out there and do good acts of kindness for the world...you can start in your community/town or your space you live..reach out to someone/or a charity and help out somehow..be kind...you'll feel great...i promise!

xoxo!!!

making homemade candy....

Just because this is an awesome song and he's my fave....
 
Ok, so far i have gotten the online purchase straightened out after about 5 emails with the company i ordered from....lol....they were nice though..They DID make a mistake and hopefully it looks like they fixed it and they even sent me a tracking number...they had sent me the tracking number to a previous order from them...lol...that was the problem...*fingers crossed it gets here*...nervous.
 
helped my Grandparents with Medicare supplement enrollment yesterday...online..oh wow...you talk about confusing!!!...i had no clue what to do with all that mess....yikes....it takes a genius to go through all those plans and pick/choose...can't they make that simpler for them?.....hopefully i made the right decisions for them....they chose and i filled out the info online forms for them...anything with the government is complicated..why?...so stupid...especially being completely complicated for the old people....ridiculous...that was stressful let me tell ya!
 
Turned my little bull calf out yesterday on wheat...he's had his shot and he's doing really great..i spy on him with binoculars and see how he's adapting to life with the other cows....i raised him from a tiny little baby on a bottle...he was orphaned and i saved him...been a lot of hours and care...tough at times but i did it!!!...i'm sooooo proud of myself for saving him and i'm proud he's healthy and free now in the pasture...kinda teary eyed turning him out...he looked at me a few minutes and then took off running with the other cows...he'll never leave this farm....he's my baby...isn't that silly?..aww..i love him like a pet...he's so cute...his name is Blue. ;)
 
AND.....so apparently everyone wants milk chocolate/white chocolate fudge as the candy this year..so i guess that's what i'll be making for the parade friday after we finish decorating, and i will make some for my Christmas candy boxes this year...I just use the easy recipe with marshmallow creme.Since our ENTIRE family is crazy about peanut butter i'm going to attempt to make Peanut Butter fudge candy....i hope i can make this right shouldn't be too hard....

Sooooooooo looks like i will have to buy A LOT of ingredients to make all this with tomorrow morning....i still gotta buy ribbons/wrapping paper/tape/and adornments for making things all cutesy on my candy boxes and my gift packages....i know....it's too much to worry with..but i am cursed with this creative mind...haha...i'm constantly thinking of ways to make things whimsical and beautiful..people DO appreciate the added adornment to things and notice it on a package or whatever...they like it...and will tell you they do.

 

anyhow,that's how i roll, so i don't question myself that's just how i have to do things..how i want..my way...

 

xoxo 

Christmas stress....

This song just because i kinda like it..was on the radio yesterday...

 

I'm really starting to feel the start of holiday stress....so many things to get done before Christmas and leading up to Christmas....and one of the online gifts i bought not arriving like it's supposed to?.....well that stresses me too....because it just throws me back behind and makes me very angry---(i have an awful mean temper)..i still have hope for it to get here because now it looks like the company may have made an error...so that makes me feel a little better about getting it....*fingers crossed*

 

It's rather ridiculous when you think about it..how you create your own stress over silly things getting done before/or for the holidays you know?....It's not all your fault you get anxious and stressed,of course all the people around you add to that because you play off their Christmas stress....lol...does that make sense? I have so many things to get done/buy/plan/help with that i actually couldn't stop thinking about it all last night....isn't that stupid?...

 

town is having a parade downtown and i'm apart of that in a few days...decorating/planning/helping...i have to help make a lot of candies for a Christmas booth downtown for the Town&Country Club and decorate all that etc....I LOVE making candies and making them cute/creative/colorful...it's just that i gotta have all that done by Friday and i'm completely covered up with a zillion billion other things to get done....not just that but helping with a parade float and various other things....AND working/chores/cleaning out stalls...etc...errands...yeah i got a billion errands i have to get done!!!....

 

It's all apart of the craziness of the holidays i know...everyone deals with it as best they can...

 

 

and gifts/wrapping paper/ribbons....i still have to buy a lot of stuff and also make MORE candy for family and friends or i will never hear the end of it from them.....LOL..."Julia where's my candy?Aren't you making candy boxes this year?! I want one!".....haha...so i have to get those done..i have to...lol..

 

 

and finally....

 

 

Dear Stupid Dirty 80/mph Wind:

 

I HATE you!...Please STOP BLOWING!...You're making everyone sicker!...It needs to rain or snow or something other than you blowing around and making dust storms & allergies all the time.No thank you for making me sick..AGAIN.---J.

stolen mail.....

Well....just got off the phone with a "wonderful" conversation with the nuts down at the post office.....

One of the gifts i ordered online never arrived on friday...and according to the tracking number with the postal service it was delivered to my house on friday.....IT NEVER ARRIVED or it was STOLEN!!!...Wow....hmm....just take your pick of the hillbilly down this road that stole my gift out of the mailbox.....Gee...wonder which one it could be?..hillbilly relatives or neighbors???..if that's the case it's good as gone ya know....

God!....i hate all these losers around here...I'm so mad right now you have no freaking idea blog!...Or it could be person delivering the mail lost ot or stole it?....you can never know.

The guy at the Post office told me he would call me back and try to figure it out..he took my cell number....and said he would call me back later....Yeah..you know i'll never get that gift and he will probably never contact me back with any info on it...because he has no idea...

I swear somedays it seems like you just can't have anything or do anything around here with all the idiots running around...

seriously hoping they locate this but not really expecting them too....

I am soooooooooofreaking angry.